My two cents:
As even Germany is getting dryer and dryer during the years because of the weather (climate change ?) and every year there are more fires in woods and elsewhere there is a louder getting cry for fire fighting helicopters.
But instead the government seting up a fund to reward "highly experienced" civil operators from - they go the way of "we bought all this fancy new equipment for our police forces now let us use it even for things they (the police) have no real knowlwdge of".
This ends in stupid "operational concepts" as you can see in the video.
No doubt Germany should keep founding this modern equipment for the various forces but they again should keep using it as they have done to date and leave fire fighting to the experts.
There are better qualified (and cost effective) helicopters (and pilots) for fire fighting than a police 145.
Maybe FB can comment further on the subject although he is in the german police force and might be prejudiced
And maybe the 145 is so complex that you need two pilots concentrating on flying not having time to press a "release button"
